Reply #4: Well, it would be nice if some of them could recognize our common enemy.

[Zorra]

And we could find some common ground.

Translating that into agreement as to how to subdue our common enemy might be difficult, due to the essential differences in our basic ideologies.

The misdirected focus of the ideology of the Tea Party has always brought to mind for me this line from the Jethro Tull song "Living in the Past":

"Now there's revolution, but they don't know what they're fighting".

Maybe if some of them figure it out, we could be allies of a sort, but decades of struggling against the irrationality of conservatives just to maintain some semblance of liberty in this country leaves me skeptical.

Thanks for the thoughtful post.